US 12,216,207 B2
Ultrasound imaging device
Charlotte Constans, Tours (FR); and Adrien Bailly, Tours (FR)
Assigned to MODULEUS, Tours (FR)
Appl. No. 17/921,596
Filed by MODULEUS, Tours (FR)
PCT Filed Apr. 16, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/059893
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 26, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/219402, PCT Pub. Date Nov. 4, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 20/04326 (FR), filed on Apr. 30, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0168371 A1, Jun. 1, 2023
Int. Cl. G01S 15/89 (2006.01)
CPC G01S 15/8927 (2013.01) [G01S 15/8993 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An ultrasound imaging device comprising an assembly of ultrasound transducers divided into a plurality of sub-assemblies, each sub-assembly comprising P ultrasound transducers, the device comprising, for each sub-assembly:
K transceiver circuits; and
a configurable routing circuit coupling the P ultrasound transducers of the sub-assembly to the K transceiver circuits,
wherein P and K are integers greater than or equal to 2, with K smaller than P,
and wherein each sub-assembly comprises at least one mobile transducer capable of being, via the routing circuit, disconnected or connected to any one of a plurality of predefined transceiver circuits among the K transceiver circuits of the sub-assembly,
wherein each sub-assembly further comprises at least one fixed transducer capable of being, via the routing circuit of the sub-assembly, disconnected or connected to a single one of the predefined transceiver circuits among the K transceiver circuits of the sub-assembly.